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Event wonder East Asia

Plain of Jars

500 BCE

Thousands of mysterious megalithic stone jars scattered across the Xiangkhoang Plateau in Laos.

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Standing in 500 BCE

Records whose own span was running in this exact year.

Egypt Polity · Middle East 3000 BCE – 2026 CE Maya chiefdoms and states Polity · Americas 2000 BCE – 1521 CE Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers Polity · Oceania 2000 BCE – 1815 CE Lençóis Maranhenses Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Serengeti National Park Landmark · Africa 3000 BCE – still standing Great Pyramid of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2560 BCE – still standing

Around the same time

The nearest dated moments on either side.

500 BCE Bukhara 500 BCE Nazca Lines 500 BCE Roman Forum 500 BCE Monte Albán 500 BCE Afrasiab (Ancient Samarkand) 500 BCE Aden